A man lit a fire outside an empty commercial unit under the belief he was helping a woman he knew with her inheritance, a court has heard.
Dubliner Colm Dowling (64) believed this woman was getting a âraw dealâ by way of her inheritance and thought on the night that he might assist her by damaging the empty unit which her family owned. He told gardaÃÂ he had an alcohol problem and had been drinking prior to the offence.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Dowling that had not drunk alcohol for many years, but relapsed after his brother, John Dowling, was killed in Paris in 2018.